November 9, 2016

Status Quo: Consider Yourself Repudiated

The election results are clear. U.S. voters did not “give a mandate” to the President-elect or “vote to support the policies” of the President-elect. U.S. voters voted overwhelmingly against political business as usual, basically a government that favors corporate interests over those of the populace, a government that favors Wall Street over Main Street, a government that can’t be bothered to do anything fundamentally useful to citizens.

It will be interesting to see what will happen next. (No shit, Sherlock!)

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It’s never been a good idea to put an arsonist in charge of investigating who lit the fire. I can’t imagine what they think Trump will do to “fix” Washington politics, other than line his pockets with taxpayer money.

I don’t think there was a great deal of thought involved, unless you thing that a great deal of the same thoughts, re-thought over and over, counts.

I think people were fed up with bullshit politics in which, predictably the banks get bailed out but homeowners do not, that college kids can’t go through bankruptcy a relieve crushing debts when slimy business people can over and over, etc. Clearly Trump’s message wan’t “I have policies that will make things better for you.” Most of his utterances could be filed in a folder labeled “Ways to Make Other People’s Lives Worse.”

So, what did people really want? They wanted no more of the same old, same old and because only two candidates are allowed (others are allowed but only on paper) they selected the candidate farthest from the status quo.

If Bernie Sanders hadn’t been undermined by the Democratic establishment, he would have beaten Trump handily. He offered a progressive future and was a nice guy to boot.

Let’s see: Antichrist? Check! War and chaos? Check! (Heck the amount of that in the Republican Party should qualifyus!) Uh, what else did we need to check off … oh, Jerusalem is mightily fucked up … thank you Benjamin Netanyahu. Did I miss anything?

Surviving this, unless Trump pulls a Trump with the big red button I think is doable.

What really concerns me is the power he has to set this country back 150 years with Supreme Court nominees, repealing the clean air act, digging more coal, and building more coal plants. Turning Roe vs. Wade. Giving corporations the same considerations as people…oh wait!

What ever other regular Trump nonsense that remains to be seen, building the wall, bombing the shit out of people etc. We might survive…

I had a sense of Deja Vu after the results. I felt I was back in 1968!!! Nixon and Agnew all over. Well at least Nixon was a semi-competent paranoid! He would be a liberal now!!! Still, you never know. Trump could turn out to be good……. Nah!